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What is hexbear? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of 'hitlerites'

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'll do you one better, why is Hexbear??

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (35 children)

Hexbear.net is a Left-Unity instance populated mainly by Marxists and Anarchists. They generally don't get along with Lemmy.world, whose admins defederated from the major Marxist-aligned instances.

Whether you block Hexbear is up to you, I enjoy my time there a lot but it's also because I'm a Marxist. The ones saying they are "pretending" to be Leftist never seem to be able to explain why a large group of people would all ironically have theory reading groups and ironically support trans rights for years, even before federating with anyone else. What would they have to gain?

If I were you, I'd ask on an instance actually federated with them. You'll get different perspectives than you will here, which is always the case when it comes to controversial topics like Marxism, where opinion varies greatly from instance to instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Left-Unity instance

I doubt it or I'd be over there. Instead, I got attacked and mocked by a circlejerking mob of angsty teens from Hexbear operating in bad faith for remotely questioning something about communism and then got permabanned from Lemmy.ml. I didn't even attack it! 😂

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Credit where credit is due, youre honest and youre correct. Have my upvote!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

I try to be both, lol. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Hexbear, lemmygrad and (in great part) lemmy.ml are tankie instances.

They basically deny any crimes of Stalin, Mao etc…

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

You should block hexbear

[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 day ago (12 children)

TLDR: they are right-wingers pretending to be left wing

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I love this image. Something that always confused me is that they are communist, but support russia? An extremely far right government?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Authoritarians like authoritarian regimes. They'll perform extreme mental gymnastics to reconcile their preconceived notions with reality, like the tankies that declare China to be socialist. Also, most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world. Therefore anybody who opposes the Great Satan must be good.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

There's no support for the Russian Federation. Support for the USSR? Absolutely, but not the RF. There's critical support, as in the RF currently takes an antagonistic stance towards the United States, which many Leftists see as the greater global evil, but no leftist genuinely thinks the RF is doing that out of "good intentions" or has any model that Leftists should replicate.

That sums it up.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What does the Y axis represent here?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Technically, the X-axis doesn't represent anything either, as the far-right plot point curves upward, rather than continuing.